I love Scarlet/Violet but man, the performance issues are not overblown.

To those mentioning higher prices in the 16 bit era and earlier, context is important:

I mostly play single player games which means I am a patient gamer. I will wait for sales. Been doing it for decades now. Why pay full price now, when you can pay half price a year later? No rush.

I think the problem here is that you’re arguing about expectations no one had.

The fact time travel(or as the game puts it: “changing fate/destiny” nice FF13 logic) is involved means Toriyama and Nomura are walking on hot coals. This also implies the most memorable moments that come at a later time are given free reign to be changed - by the player or the writers.

Disagree with one thing. The way they introduced him in this game was boring. Didn’t really feel like he was earned. They could’ve introduced him midway through this one and ended it the same way and would have had a stronger effect. Instead he’s just this malicious omnipresent villain that we have zero context for,…

Was that what they were going for? Because he showed up so damn much while twirling his mustache that it was hard to take him seriously. It’s like the Lich King in Wow, he showed up so damn much that he became a joke by the end of it all.

On one hand I think the remake explained some of the early things better with how they use him. But in the other... some of those scenes are extremely silly and make him look like even less of a threat. Particularly the fact that the original made him out to be a threat by literally showing us what he can do. Here it…